The Wiki/FAQ contains a complete list of detailed posting rules and community guidelines as well as our lengthy beginner's guides, friends/sister-subs, useful posts, guitar lessons from our very own "Fake Dr. Levin", and a history of /r/Guitar community jam sessions. Take a minute to check them all out!

POSTING GUIDELINES

Before asking a question, check out the wiki & FAQ and do a quick search to make sure it hasn't been answered before

Pictures and videos can be included in
the body of the text within your post.

Got a sound or performance video you want to share? Add "[PLAY]" to the beginning of your post and it will give the post some added attention.

No link-dropping - The body of your post must contain more than just a link!

Post should contain any pertinent information such as year/make/model (a short review is always appreciated)

Optional:

Where did you buy it?

How much?

What is the construction?

Why does the instrument (or other gear) appeal to you?

How does it sound? Include a sound (soundcloud.com) or video clip

Spam and self-advertising are not allowed in /r/Guitar. This means no linking to your blog/web site/YouTube channel without prior approval from the moderators. Please message the mods with any requests for such approval.

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

DO NOT ADVERTISE - For yourself, or as a proxy. All posts containing obvious advertising will be removed and its author made a member of /r/flautist.

All users are expected and encouraged to read the Wiki/FAQ and know the posting rules before submitting a link/comment.

Do not link to outside retail sites in the Main Post. Be very descriptive in your post. Links in the discussions are OK but may be automatically removed by the subreddit's spam filter.

Be kind and considerate - Any inflammatory, disrespectful, and/or hateful comments will result in a ban. We have a zero-tolerance policy regarding such comments/posts

No "Gear for Sale" posts - /r/Gear4Sale is an active music instrument gear sale/trade sub. All threads of this nature should be posted to that subreddit.

You would do yourself and your business a favor, by doing the right thing.

Just apologize, move on.

Arguing that you waited to post the link until there was so much interest seems, in my opinion, disingenuous at best.

If you were being genuine in the first post, you wouldn't have posted your website. Certainly wouldn't have linked to it in the new one.

Who believes a man who has been in business for 27 years needed input to give away product? Obvious way to get more promotion without paying advertising, or actually giving anything away.

No doubt you intended to give away "guitar picks" and other cheap product at some point. But so far, you've been pushing your business on reddit to your target market, at no expense but a minimum of time.

You mean I should apologize? Where you don't like it, I am within the rules. Technically nothing I did was spam, and just because you don't like the way I do it, you go through calling it spam and insulting my intentions, and I need to apologize?

I don't know what I have yet to give away. I have sent e-mails hitting up suppliers seeing if they can spare anything for cheap or free. So, don't even assume I know everything that will be available. I was making a preliminary post on how to do a giveaway on Reddit. I do giveaways all of the time, don't assume to lecture me on that.

Who cares if it's just guitar picks? A guitar pick pack is $4.50, and if I give away 50 of them, and I foot the shipping bill, that's hundreds of dollars I am giving away. You only get FREE picks? What a jerk I am! If you get a coupon or happen to learn my business name out of that, I should be openly criticized? Please.

I like this subreddit and answer way more questions than I post. Do I mention my business name? No. I genuinely try to contribute to this community.

I have hardly pushed my business and wanted to do something good. You have no right to lecture me on this.